Bridge over the Little Big Horn River. Taken same time as 56279 Smithsonian.' See BPL 2013.01.543 Smithsonian Institution Notes: Fred E. Miller (1868-1936) accepted a position in 1898 as a clerk for the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Crow Reservation in southeast Montana. For almost 14 years, Miller lived among and photographed the Apsa?alooke (Crow) people, learned to speak the language, and was officially adopted into the nation.

56279-A Smithsonian. The Fred E. Miller collection at the Smithsonian primarily contains photographic materials made by Miller of Apsa?alooke (Crow) Indians between 1898 and 1912. Shortly after his death, his photography equipment and five hundred glass plate negatives were sold by court order at public auction. For additional Fred E. Miller materials see the William Wildschut collection of photographic prints and negatives at the Smithsonian. Dorothy Munson, curator of the Fred E. Miller Collection, in Housatonic, Massachusetts, told the Smithsonian that Fred E. Miller was the photographer of 136 of the images in the William Wildschut Photograph Collection, 1888-1927, at the Smithsonian. It is not known how Wildschut acquired the Miller photographs.

Contributing Institution

Billings Public Library

Geographic Coverage

Crow Indian Reservation, Montana

Digital Collection

Billings - Historic Collection

Digital Format

image/tiff

Digitization Specifications

Items were scanned with a Kodak ngenuity 9125 or a Panasonic KV-57075C at 300 DPI using Papervision Capture Scan software.